(LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY) When did colombias movement for independence start? What was the role of the Enlightenment in the development of the movement for Independence? What was the international event that revolutionized local leaders? What were the immediate reasons for the Independence?  Evalulate the social classes involved in the societal dislocation? What was the position taken by the Crown? Briefly discuss the events leading to independence. Who really won the war of independence? How did the war of independence effect the neighbors?

You are Head of Sales & Marketing and a member of the Strategic Management Team for a medium sized organization that manufactures and sells specialized oil and gas exploratory, drilling and production equipment to a wide range of global oil and gas companies. One of the major strategic initiatives being considered by the Strategic Team is expanding the organization’s existing U.S. based manufacturing operations of this equipment to both South America and the African continent to reduce shipping distance of material and establish a local presence.

The targeted country in Africa being considered is Nigeria, which would allow shipment of equipment to African oil producers in Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, DRC and Equatorial Guinea. The targeted country in Latin America under consideration is Venezuela, which would allow shipment of equipment to Latin American oil producers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

The company’s CEO asks you to prepare an environmental scan that will focus on key strategic decision making that need to be examined for both countries under consideration, Venezuela and Nigeria, and to be “brutally honest” in your evaluation and comments.

Please type your answer under the right section in the table below:

The city of Miami has received a proposal to build a new multipurpose outdoor sports stadium. The expected life of the stadium is 20 years. It will be financed by a 20-year industrial development bond that will require a payment of 8 percent interest annually. The stadium’s primary tenant will be the city’s Triple-A baseball team, the Mudhawks.

The plan’s backers anticipate that the new facility will also be used for rock concerts and college and high school sports events. The city does not pay any taxes. The city’s cost of capital is 8 percent. The costs and estimated revenues generated from the facility are presented as follows:

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1. Identify the kind of sampling was implemented in the following scenarios.
   1. Police at a sobriety checkpoint pull over every fifth car to determine whether the driver is sober.
   2. A pollster obtains a list of all the residential addresses in a certain town and uses a computer random number generator to choose 150 of them. The pollster visits each of the 150 households and interviews all the adults in each household about their television viewing habits.
   3. Officials at a metropolitan transit authority want to get input from people who use a certain bus route about a possible change in the schedule. They randomly select 5 buses during a certain week and poll all riders on those buses about the change.
   4. A smartphone app produces a message requesting customers to click on a link to rate the app.
2. Imagine that you are asked to determine students’ opinions at your school about different types of contraception or birth control methods. Describe how you could go about getting a sample of each of the following types: simple random sample, sample of convenience, voluntary response sample, stratified sample, cluster sample, systematic sample.

Do you believe that working at Lowell Mill was a good position for a female in the 1830's? Why or why not? Many of the mill girls were working to help support the education of a male family member. How do you think this affected their attitude towards work and their working conditions?

Load the package nycflights13 with library(nycflights13). If you are on running R Studio locally, you must install this package before you can use it!

# install.packages("nycflights13")
library(nycflights13)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

data(flights)
data(airports)
data(airlines)

Question 2

The dataset `airlines` contains the full name of the carrier (examine it!). Join the dataset with the flights dataset so all of the information in `flights` is retained. Using the merged dataset, which carrier (`name`) has the longest average departure delay? Which has the shortest?

A Cournot oligopoly consists of four firms, each with a marginal cost of production of MC=10. The market demand curve is given by Q=(100-P)/3 . The four firms are looking to merge into a single firm so they can increase their profit margin by taking advantage of scale economies. Suppose that after the merger, market demand remains the same but the marginal cost of production of the merged firm decreases to MC=4.

26. What is the change in net social welfare resulting from the merger?

      A. -$144

      B. $2,500

      C. -$850

      D. $380

      E.   $0

a. Develop a divide-and-conquer algorithm to perform a parallel merge sort of an array. Hint: After division, each process sorts its part of the array using an efficient algorithm. Then, the subarrays are merged into larger sorted subarrays. b. Analyze the communication and computation times if the number of processes is equal to the number of array elements, n. c. Repeat Part b if the number of processes is less than the number of array elements. Assume that the computation time for the sequential sorting algorithm employed is proportional to m log(m), where m is the number of elements being sorted.

What is the significance of dancing to the people of the town (particular the mother)? in the short story Voice by Alice Munro